scaremonger

(n.) A person who invents threats to themselves and others everywhere. A form of critic looking for a lucky break to be proven right. Typically praises other scaremongers, 1984, hates the government, organised religion and trading systems while freely using the produce of any. Quite narrow minded and insecure, but will attract a lot of sheep.

I have the unfortunate trait of sometimes being a scaremonger.

scaremonger by Gumba Gumba June 2, 2004

scaremony 

n. 1. A Halloween themed wedding, or funeral, or any other such ceremony. 2. Any ceremony where somebody dies or bad things happen!

I'm not going to the scaremony because, really, who the heck has a wedding on Halloween? Are they going to throw candy with needles in it instead of rice?

scaremony by j. alders October 17, 2009

Scaremongering 

The act of arousing alarm through ominous reports or rumours for one's own personal gain.

Anti Vaxxer: Bill Gates is paying scientists to create a vaccine to depopulate the world.

Sane person: Stop with the anti vax scaremongering.

Scaremongering by Jeffy Jeffy who lives on Jeffy August 15, 2021

Scarsumofsomegymnasticsequipment#me 

It means that yo are scared of some gymnastics equipment like me

I have Scarsumofsomegymnasticsequipment#me syndrome.

Scarsumofsomegymnasticsequipment#me by A Kool Girl July 18, 2019

Pseudoscience Scaremongering

The strategic use of exaggerated threats about pseudoscience to justify censorship, exclusion, intellectual orthodoxy, and the suppression of dissent. Pseudoscience scaremongering treats every unconventional claim as a threat to civilization, every alternative approach as the edge of a slippery slope to barbarism, every deviation from consensus as the first step toward the end of reason. It's the op-ed warning that homeopathy will destroy medicine; the campaign claiming that questioning climate models is equivalent to climate denial; the rhetoric that treats any skepticism of scientific orthodoxy as an attack on science itself. The scaremongering serves power, not truth—it protects established institutions from challenge by painting all challenge as existential threat, making critique itself seem dangerous.

Example: "He claimed that teaching students to question scientific consensus would destroy Western civilization—not argument, but Pseudoscience Scaremongering, using exaggerated threat to shut down inquiry rather than engage it."

Pseudoscience Scaremongering by Dumu The Void March 14, 2026

Postmodernism Scaremongering

The strategic use of exaggerated threats about postmodernism to justify intellectual orthodoxy, dismiss critique, and shut down legitimate inquiry. Postmodernism scaremongering treats any questioning of grand narratives, any attention to language and power, any skepticism about universal truth claims as the first step toward nihilism, barbarism, and the destruction of civilization itself. It's the op-ed warning that teaching Derrida will lead to fascism; the pundit who blames every social ill on "postmodern relativism"; the academic who uses "postmodernism" as a slur to dismiss any approach they don't like without engaging its actual arguments. The scaremongering serves power by making critique itself seem dangerous—painting those who question foundations as enemies of reason, when they might just be asking reasonable questions about whose reason counts.

Example: "He blamed postmodernism for everything from political polarization to declining test scores—never defining what he meant, just using it as a bogeyman. Pure Postmodernism Scaremongering: fighting shadows instead of arguments."

Postmodernism Scaremongering by Dumu The Void March 14, 2026

Relativism Scaremongering

The strategic use of exaggerated threats about relativism to justify absolute claims, dismiss alternative perspectives, and shut down questions about whose truth counts. Relativism scaremongering treats any suggestion that truth might be contextual, any acknowledgment that different cultures have different ways of knowing, any skepticism about universal standards as the first step toward moral chaos, political collapse, and the end of civilization. It's the pundit who warns that acknowledging cultural differences leads to approving genocide; the philosopher who treats any contextualism as a slippery slope to nihilism; the polemicist who uses "relativist" as a slur to dismiss anyone who questions their absolutes. The scaremongering makes critique unthinkable by making it seem monstrous—painting those who ask "whose truth?" as enemies of truth itself.

Example: "She suggested that maybe different cultures have different valid ways of knowing—and he accused her of endorsing Holocaust denial. Relativism Scaremongering: using the worst possible outcome to dismiss any nuance at all."

Relativism Scaremongering by Dumu The Void March 14, 2026